GIRLS SOCCER: Waynesboro shuts out Fairfield

The Waynesboro Maidens closed out the regular season with an impressive 6-0 victory over the Fairfield Green Knight soccer team Wednesday afternoon on the field hockey field.

WAYNESBORO — The Waynesboro Maidens closed out the regular season with an impressive 6-0 victory over the Fairfield Green Knight soccer team Wednesday afternoon on the hockey field.

Waynesboro, now 14-4, will host a District 3 play-in game Saturday. The time and opponent will be announced later.

It’s been a big season for the Lady Knights, who were 14-0 before falling in their last two games, including a playoff game against Dover last Saturday.This was the second straight lopsided win for the Maidens, following a 5-0 verdict over Spring Grove Monday.

Five different Maidens scored with Mallory Patterson claiming two, while Liv Bailey, Jade Swope, Alysha McCleaf and Monica Beck each connected once. McCleaf and Kaitie Clawson earned two assists, while Julie Smith and Kennedy Chandler had one each.

“The thing about our team,” Waynesboro coach Brian Fisher offered, “is that it’s not one person who scores. We have at least 10 girls who have goals. Goals have come from a number of positions, which is good.

“The opposition can’t target one person and take them out of the game. I think that’s important.”

Waynesboro pressed the attack in the early going with McCleaf and Swope providing the firepower while Fairfield’s Katelyn McDonald and Elizabeth Heinbaugh disrupted several Waynesboro threats.

Waynesboro grabbed a 1-0 lead 7:30 into the contest when Patterson netted her first off a feed from Smith, placing a 12-yarder from the right post into the left corner.

Fairfield came right back, but a shot by Elizabeth Myers was blocked by Sam Nichols.

Waynesboro countered with shots over the crossbar by Beck and Patterson.The Maidens completed their first-half scoring after 14:03 following a corner kick by Clawson as Liv Bailey raced up to flick an 18-yard shot over Knight goalkeeper Amelia Ford and into the left corner.

Fairfield then pushed the Maidens deep into their end of the field and had several corner kicks before Bailey cleared the ball from Toni Harbaugh, Nicole Small and Samantha Schlak.

Knight Catherine Herl followed with a well-struck free kick that Maiden keeper Nicole Kreimer knocked away at the left post for another Fairfield corner.With about 13 minutes left in the half, Fairfield’s Annie Roberts unloaded with a long, long kick that Kreimer leaped high at the right post to push over the crossbar for yet another F-field corner.

Waynesboro controlled play through much of the second half, adding four more scores.

“We played great in the second half,” Fisher observed. “We fixed some things we weren’t quite executing in the first half. I’m happy with it. It was a good team win. I expect them to continue it on Saturday.”

The first second-half score came at 2:40 when Swope connected from close range, hitting the ball off a defender after receiving a pass from McCleaf.

Another score came at 6:29 as McCleaf found the net on an 12-yarder from the left side that settled in the upper right corner. The assist went to Clawson.Midway through the half, Knights Makensy Peiffer and Harbaugh carried the ball deep, but Bailey drifted back to prevent a shot. Then Nichols stopped a threat by McDonald.

At 23:14, Beck converted a superb 25-yard shot that sailed over the keeper and into the upper part of the cage. Chandler picked up the assist.Patterson, who started it all early, ended the scoring at 27:09 as she split the Fairfield defense and placed the ball into the lower right corner. The assist went to McCleaf.

Waynesboro managed 15 shots on goal to six for Fairfield and the Knights owned a 7-6 corner kick advantage.

Ford was credited with 10 saves and 16 stops, while Kreimer picked up six assists and six stops.

“Nicole had about three amazing saves,” Fisher noted. “She did great.”There was no junior varsity game.

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